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Wellsville, OH 43968 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Wellsville, OH, ZIP 43968

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 186 frost-free days later.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Wellsville, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Wellsville has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Wellsville compares

At roughly 186 frost-free days, Wellsville places 22,819 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 490 of 1,383.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Wellsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Wellsville can differ from the 43968 normal.